Member, Timken Board of Directors

 

John P. Reilly, 68, retired as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Figgie International, an international diversified operating company, in 1998.  In that role, he presided over the successful sale of the company’s thirty divisions and led the orderly dissolution of that company under very challenging circumstances.  Prior to 1998, Mr. Reilly served in a number of senior management roles with large companies, primarily in the automotive industry.  His hands-on experience in the automotive industry provides the Company’s Board with a key resource in a significant sector in which the Company competes.  He also brings his knowledge of financial and human resource issues gained through his forty years of successful executive leadership to his role on the Board.  He has served on the Board of Directors since 2006.  Mr. Reilly also serves as a director and non-executive chairman of both Exide Technologies and Material Sciences Corporation, and he has been a director of each of those companies since 2004.  Mr. Reilly’s term expires in 2012.